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Game #5152

Aston Villa

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Drew

13th (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨

Premier League

Attendance: 31,853

Everton

Villa Park

Villa draw for the ninth time under Alex McLeish to leave them with five wins in twenty one Premier League games.

Aston Villa

1-1

Everton

Assist(s) | Stephen Ireland | 56’ |

KEY MAN

Stephen Ireland and Villa lose for the ninth time to leave them with five wins in twenty one games under Alex McLeish in the Premier League, Saturday, 14 January 2012.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 14 January 2012

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Everton
⚽ | 56’ Goal, 1-0, Darren Bent, Assist by Stephen Ireland
🥅 | 69’ Goal, 1-1, (Everton), Victor Anichebe
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Stephen Warnock, Sub on, Robbie Keane 🟢
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Marc Albrighton
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Everton

ON THIS DAY

Alex McLeish's Villa record their ninth draw of the season to remain 13th in the table. Meanwhile, Robbie Keane, 31, made his Villa debut 13 years after he should have done, after joining on a 3 month loan from LA Galaxy. In 1999 hesitation lost Villa bound Keane to Coventry City and a genuine talent was lost to Villa Park until a short cameo in his twilight years.

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Everton

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1994-95

FIXTURE HISTORY

Everton

Previous 5 vs. Everton: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 2011-12 |
Matchday | #24 |
League Game | #21 |
Manager Game | #24 |
Saturday, 14 January 2012

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 2011-2012
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Durham, 2000-2017
Previous 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 26 Dec 11, Villa 0-0 Stoke (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Simon Beck, Stephen Child

CARDS

Villa

🟨

Everton

🟨

Mark Clattenburg

TEAM NEWS

Shay Given and Gabriel Agbonlahor return for Brad Guzan and Emile Heskey.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.14 |

Oldest Player |
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 | 35.76 |

Youngest Player |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.17 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

David Moyes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Aston Villa

GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Everton

GK Tim Howard | 🇺🇸 |
LB Leighton Baines | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Heitinga | 🇳🇱 |
CB Shane Duffy | 🇮🇪 |
RB Phil Neville | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Darron Gibson | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Royston Drenthe | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
M Tim Cahill | 🇦🇺 |
M Marouane Fellaini | 🇧🇪 | 🟨 |
CF Louis Saha | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
F Landon Donovan | 🇺🇸 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 CF Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 | 🟢 | for LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Darron Gibson | 🇮🇪 | (M Diniyar Bilyaletdinov | 🇷🇺 |)
🔁 | M Royston Drenthe | 🇳🇱 | (CF Victor Anichebe | 🇳🇬 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | CF Louis Saha | 🇫🇷 | (CF Denis Stracqualursi | 🇦🇷 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Ján Mucha | 🇸🇰 |
M Magaye Gueye | 🇫🇷 |
F James McFadden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Apostolos Vellios | 🇬🇷 |

SQUAD STATS

1st XI: £63.86m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/18
Homegrown: 5/18

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

Team Cost: £52.52m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 2/14

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Injury | 4 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
M Jermaine Jenas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Out on Loan | 3 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | Olympiacos Piraeus
CB Shane Lowry | 🇦🇺 | Millwall
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leicester

UNAVAILABLE

Not Reported

Player Abbreviations:

GK : Goalkeeper

LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back

CB, D : Centre Back, Defender

M, W : Midfielder. Winger

F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward

🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance

DEBUT APPEARANCES

F Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 |

FINAL APPEARANCES

MATCH STATS

Possession F | 55%
Possession A | 45%
Shots F | 16
Shots A | 7
Shots on Target F | 10
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 9
Corners A | 3
Fouls F | 12
Fouls A | 11

TABLE

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PROGRAMME

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MATCHDAY QUOTES

“I’m disappointed we didn’t hold on. I had a good feeling we would. It’s such a shame that Albrighton tracked Anichebe back but just didn’t do the final thing to stop him.

“We are gutted by that. It’s a good learning experience for him. It hurt us a wee bit by not getting three points.

“It was great to see Darren [Bent] back in the goals. He’s been struggling a bit with injuries but he finished the game well.”

Alex McLeish.

*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 14 January 2012

*Victor Anichebe came off the bench to earn Everton a point as Aston Villa’s poor home form continued.*

Darren Bent opened the scoring for the hosts with a scuffed finish from Stephen Ireland’s pass in the 56th minute.

David Moyes’ response was to bring on Anichebe and he slotted home after Landon Donovan played him through.

Anichebe had a late attempt to grab a winner with a fierce strike but Shay Given denied him a winner.

Villa had only won three home games this season out of 10 but, with Everton having only managed a solitary victory at Villa Park since the inception of the Premier League, the hosts would have been hopeful of improving that record.

However it was Everton, with Darron Gibson making his debut after his move from Manchester United on Friday, who dominated the early stages.

Only the heroics of Shay Given, who returned to the starting line-up after six weeks out with a hamstring injury, kept Villa in the game as he made a stunning save to deny Louis Saha after the striker rose well to head Leighton Baines’ header on target.

Given was called upon again soon after, this time to spare the blushes of his own team-mate.

Saha failed to get up to reach a Baines cross and Stephen Warnock was caught unaware as the ball came off his head but Given proved that Villa boss Alex McLeish was right to slot him straight back into the starting line-up.

Villa’s best chance of the half fell to Marc Albrighton but, just as he was about to strike from close range, Royston Drenthe tracked back to make a last-ditch tackle.

After the break Everton went close again when Marouane Fellaini met Baines’ free-kick at the back post, but Given was on hand to save with his shoulder.

Given’s performance paid dividends when Bent opened the scoring in the 56th minute and, like much of Villa’s play early on, it was scrappy.

Shane Duffy failed to clear Albrighton’s cross and Ireland pounced to retrieve the ball and tee up Bent.

The England striker’s finish was certainly not his best but, with the help of a deflection off a sliding Phil Neville, the ball spun over Howard.

Moyes hauled off Drenthe soon after to bring on Anichebe and the substitute made an almost instant impact.

A perfectly-timed pass from Donovan cut open the hosts’ defence and Anichebe managed to stay onside before calmly slotting past Given.

Desperate for a win, McLeish brought on Robbie Keane to make his debut with just under 10 minutes remaining in place of Warnock, but the on-loan LA Galaxy striker could not muster up a Hollywood-style finish.

Villa threw men into the box but, except for a couple of scrambles in the area, they never came close and Everton’s best chance of a late winner came to Anichebe, only for Given to be on hand to save again.

*Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish:*

“I’m disappointed we didn’t hold on. I had a good feeling we would. It’s such a shame that Albrighton tracked Anichebe back but just didn’t do the final thing to stop him.

“We are gutted by that. It’s a good learning experience for him. It hurt us a wee bit by not getting three points.

“It was great to see Darren [Bent] back in the goals. He’s been struggling a bit with injuries but he finished the game well.”